. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants . the Gombacislands, close to the grass, in six fathoms. Aug. 7. In the morning, it being calm, I wentin the gig through the creek of Gombac, and found,though extremely narrow, that it had a depth offive to ten fathoms. There are but two islands,the separation marked by Maxwell between thetwo western ones being only a cove
. Narrative of an expedition to explore the river Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the direction of Captain J. K. Tuckey, R. N. To which is added, the journal of Professor Smith; and some general observations on the country and its inhabitants . the Gombacislands, close to the grass, in six fathoms. Aug. 7. In the morning, it being calm, I wentin the gig through the creek of Gombac, and found,though extremely narrow, that it had a depth offive to ten fathoms. There are but two islands,the separation marked by Maxwell between thetwo western ones being only a cove; they aremere rocks of slate with a good many trees. Fromthem I landed on the main, and ascended the hillsthat form the Fiddlers Elbow of Maxwell, whichare also composed entirely of slate, with vast mass-es of quartz on the surface, and with only thinlyscattered bushes of a shrubby tree, of which thenatives make their spoons. These spoons aremade with great neatness, and not inferior in anyrespect to the same utensil in many parts of Eu-rope. Their knives, too, are not to be despised,but the blades are not always made by themselves;though they always prefer their own hafts andsheaths. These articles are represented on thefollowing page. 178 CAPTAIN TUCKEYS The ant hills were here extremely numerous,but now unoccupied, it appearing that these in-sects shift their habitations to the trees in this sea-those on the ground have exactly the shape son; of a mushroom, consisting of a round column 18inches high, surmounted by a domed head twofeet in diameter.
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